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"you dirty scum. How could you kill your own father?

TONIGHT A SON SITS IN JAIL--

ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS 91 YEAR OLD FATHER.

HIS NEIGHBORS ARE OUTRAGED!

nats of men screaming

MEN CRYING, AND YELLING SORRY--

ABC 7 TAKES YOU INSIDE THIS CHILD PREDATOR BUST.

ABC 7 IS IN THE SCHOOL ZONE--

OUR SMART SHOPPER SHOWS YOU SMART WAYS TO SAVE SOME CASH ON BACK TO SCHOOL SHOPPING.

AND A TEEN SO FED UP WITH BEING BULLIED--

SHE GETS 40-THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF PLASTIC SURGERY.

THE NEWS AT 5 STARTS RIGHT NOW.

HL1) CAPE MURDER FOLO-trxSOTVO

HL2) FL CHILD PREDATOR BUST-trxNATSVO

HL3) BACK TO SCHOOL SAVINGS-trxVOTOPS

HL4) BULLIED TEEN PLASTIC SURGERY-trxVOTOPS

ERNESTO-CLIP

FIRST WX-WX WALL

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Ernesto has formed in the Atlantic and is speeding toward a chain of small, popular vacation islands in the Caribbean Sea.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Thursday afternoon that the storm is headed west at about 22 mph toward the Caribbean. Tropical storm warnings are in effect for the islands of Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Martinique, Guadeloupe and the Grenadines.

The storm's maximum sustained winds are rapidly gaining strength and were at 50 mph.

ANTONIO THOMAS IN COURT-VO-SS

THE MAN ACCUSED OF A VIOLENT CRIME SPREE AGAINST WOMEN -- INCLUDING MURDERING A CAPE CORAL WOMAN -- APPEARED IN COURT TODAY.

ANTONIO THOMAS FACES A CHARGE OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER FOR THE DEATH OF 61 YEAR OLD PHYLLIS STEIN.

THOMAS' ATTORNEY ORIGINALLY ASKED THE JUDGE TO POSTPONE TODAY'S APPPEARANCE.

BUT THE JUDGE DENIED THAT.

ALSO -- THE DEATH PENALTY REVIEW COMMITTEE IS LOOKING AT THE CASE TO DETERMINE WHETHER PROSECUTORS SHOULD SEEK CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

THOMAS FACES 14 OTHER FELONIES.

LAUREN MAYHER IN COURT-OC

ALSO IN COURT TODAY --

A FORT MYERS WOMAN CITED FOR RUNNING OVER A WOMAN WALKING ON FORT MYERS BEACH IN APRIL.

LAUREN MAYHERS PLEADED NO CONTEST IN COURT.

THE JUDGE TOOK HER LICENSE FOR 3 MONTHS AND ORDERED HER TO PAY A 500 DOLLAR FINE.

THE 81 YEAR OLD VICTIM IS STILL RECOVERING.

STRIANO SUSPECT STILL ON THE LOOSE-SS-SS-SS

THE MANHUNT CONTINUES TONIGHTFOR A SUSPECTED MURDERER IN LEE COUNTY

DEPUTIES ARE LOOKING FOR THIS MAN - BILLY RETHERFORD JUNIOR.

THEY SAY HE AND HIS NEPHEW BRUTALLY MURDERED 55-YEAR-OLD DEBBIE STRIANO.

RETHERFORD'S BEEN ON THE RUN SINCE FRIDAY.

DEPUTIES THINK HE'S STILL IN THE AREA.

55-YEAR-OLD DEBBIE STRIANO'S BOYFRIEND FOUND HER DEAD - HER THROAT SLIT - INSIDE THE COUPLE'S HOME LAST TUESDAY.

DEPUTIES ARRESTED DUSTIN JAYE EARLIER THIS WEEK.

ACCORDING TO DETECTIVES BOTH JAYE AND RETHERFORD KNEW THE VICTIM.

DETECTIVES THINK THEY WENT TO ROB HER.

GOLDEN GATE MURDER FOLO-SS-VO.WIPE

COLLIER COUNTY DEPUTIES CONTINUES TO INVESTIGATE THE MURDER OF A COLLIER MAN IN GOLDEN GATE.

THE SON OF 48 YEAR OLD JOSEPH GODCHARLES FOUND HIM DEAD INSIDE HIS CONDO YESTERDAY MORNING.

INVESTIGATORS SAY COWORKERS LAST SAW GODCHARLES ALIVE WHEN HE LEFT WORK AT THE WALGREENS IN IMMOKALE-- SOMEONE LAST TALKED TO HIM BY PHONE AROUND 9:30PM.

TODAY CO-WORKERS PUT UP A SIGN IN FRONT OF THE STORE HE MANAGED SAYING: 'WE WILL MISS YOU MR. G.'

GOLDEN GATE MURDER FOLO-SOTVO

it's a tragic event and were doing everything we can to solve it. Is this an isolated or random incident? nothing indicating either way but we will get information out to the community if we think there is a threat

CAPE 7 ELEVEN-OC-VO-OC

SOME CAPE CORAL RESIDENTS ARE UPSET ABOUT PLANS TO BUILD A 7-11 AT THE ENTRANCE OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

THE DEVELOPER WANTS A SPECIAL EXCEPTION TO BUILD THE STORE ON THIS CORNER SITE AT CAPE CORAL PARKWAY AND SKYLINE BOULEVARD.

CAPE 7 ELEVEN-LL PKG

-Alex Boyer-"This is the site of that proposed 711. You can see it faces busy Cape Coral Parkway but you can see it also backs up to an established apartment complex."

THOMAS KOTOWSKI TAKES PRIDE IN KEEPING HIS YARD CLEAN.

-removing branch, etc

KOTOWSKI MOVED TO CAPE CORAL TO ENJOY HIS RETIREMENT.

BUT PLANS TO BUILD A 7-11 AT CORNER OF HIS HOUSE, HAS KOTOWSKI DOING ANYTHING BUT RELAXING.

-Thomas Kotowski/Homeowner-"Whose going to buy a house you open up your front door, you see a gas station try to sleep at night and you've got the lights coming into your windows."

KOTOWSKI AND SEVERAL OF HIS NEIGHBORS SIGNED THIS PETITION ASKING FOR THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION TO *DENY A SPECIAL EXCEPTION THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR THE 7-11 TO BE BUILT ON SUCH A SMALL PIECE OF PROPERTY.

COUNCILMAN JOHN CARIOSCA SUPPORTS THE RESIDENTS.

-Councilman John Cariosca-"I did not run into a single resident that was in favor of having a 711 gas station there."

IN JANUARY THE DEVELOPER WON A SMALL VICTORY. COUNCIL VOTED 6 TO 2 IN FAVOR OF CHANGING THE PROPOSED SITE FROM MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL TO COMMERICAL. BUT THAT *DOESN'T MEAN COUNCIL WILL *ALLOW A 7-11 TO BE BUILT THERE.

-Councilwoman Rana Erbrick-"No one has given the go ahead for anything to be built there."

CAPE MURDER FOLO-OC-VO-OC

A CAPE CORAL MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS 91 YEAR OLD FATHER WILL REMAIN IN JAIL TONIGHT.

A JUDGE DID NOT GRANT BOND TODAY FOR LEROY TAYLOR JUNIOR.

HE IS CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER IN THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER LEROY TAYLOR SENIOR.

CAPE MURDER FOLO-LL PKG

The world war two veterans life ended in a gruesome way beaten to death in his bedroom at the hands of his own flesh and blood -according to this arrest report.

Tonight as Leroy Taylor junior sits in jail, his father's closest friends unleash on the son as new details of the killing come to light.

Take pkg

Joe Lias, Taylor Sr's friend

2702 "you dirty scum. How could you kill your own father? Who was taking care of you!"

Angry and disbelief tonight -- as accused killer leroy "jim" Taylor junior faces a lee county judge.

Lias 2642 "when they told me they found him in a pool of blood, the 1st thing in my head was Jim was the one who killed him."

Not only do Cape coral investigators claim Taylor junior beat his father until his last breath in the earlier morning of Tuesday July 18th in a drunken rage.

They say he soaked his dad's body in gasoline and then told lie after lie about his father's health and well being before fleeing to new York.

Lias 2710 "he was in that cocaine. He didn't just have a drinking problem. He had a cocaine problem too."

Cape coral police officers tracked Taylor junior to new York -- where they say blood found on his belt matches his father's DNA profile.

Investigators claim the match proves a son killed his father

According to taylor juniors arrest report, his father's business partner is the one who discovered him dead on the bedroom floor.

The partner tells us he didn't want to talk about the killing when we reached him this afternoon.

A judge denied the son bond this morning.

YVYV-CLIP

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS-OC

YOUR VOICE, YOUR VOTE,

TODAY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IS CAMPAIGNING RIGHT HERE IN FLORIDA.WHILE REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER MITT ROMNEY IS IN COLORADO.

BOTH CANDIDATES ARE FOCUSING ON THE ECONOMY AND

TAXES.

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS-PKG

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER A WEEK, BOTH PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS WERE ON THE

CAMPAIGN TRAIL TODAY.

PRESIDENT OBAMA AND MITT ROMNEY ARE LOCKED IN A FIERCE BATTLE FOR MIDDLE

CLASS VOTERS.

THIS WEEK THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN POUNCED ON A NEW STUDY BY A NON-PARTISAN THINK

TANK THAT CONCLUDED THAT ROMNEY'S ECONOMIC PLAN WOULD RAISE TAXES ON THE

MAJORITY OF AMERICANS.BUT GIVE TAX BREAKS TO THE MOST WEALTHY.

Obama SOT

we do not need more tax cuts for folks who have done very very well - we

need more tax cuts for working americans,

THE PRESIDENT'S MAIN MESSAGE: ROMNEY MAY BE LOOKING OUT FOR THE RICH, BUT HE

'LL FIGHT FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS.

HIS CAMPAIGN ALSO RELEASED A NEW TV AD TODAY IN 8 BATTLEGROUND STATES.

KEEPING UP THE DRUMBEAT.

Obama ad SOT

Mitt Romney's middle class tax increase. He pays less. You pay more.

ROMNEY STUMPED IN COLORADO TODAY - HIS FIRST DAY CAMPAIGNING SINCE HIS

GAFFE-FILLED FOREIGN TRIP.

HE BROUGHT SOME PROPS - A REPORT CARD ON THE PRESIDENT'S FIRST TERM.

WHEN IT COMES TO THE ECONOMY - ROMNEY SAID THE PRESIDENT'S EARNED FAILING

MARKS.

Romney SOT

you look at the results, and it's been a disappointment. His policies have

not worked. They have not got America back to work again.

TAXES COULD DOMINATE THE CAMPAIGN DEBATE FOR FORESEEABLE FUTURE.

THE LATEST ABC NEWS-WASHINGTON POST POLL FOUND OBAMA AND ROMNEY EVEN AT 46

PERCENT WHEN IT COMES TO WHICH CANDIDATE VOTERS TRUST TO DO A BETTER JOB

HANDLING TAXES.

O/C CLOSE: THOSE NUMBERS GIVE PRESIDENT OBAMA A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY - HE

CAN GO ON THE ATTACK ON TAXES, UNUSUAL FOR DEMOCRATS. KT ABC NEWS

LEE VOTING MACHINES-VO.WIPE

EARLY VOTING BEGINS SATURDAY IN LEE COUNTY.

TODAY WAS A TEST-RUN.

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED IF THE ELECTRONIC MACHINES REALLY COUNT YOUR VOTE?

ELECTIONS WORKERS HOPE *THIS PROCESS PUTS YOUR MIND AT EASE.

SAMPLE BALLOTS ARE MARKED. FED THROUGH. AND TALLIED.

THEN THE CANVASSING BOARD LISTENS TO MAKE SURE THE VOTES THAT CAME *OUT MATCH WHAT WENT *IN.

THEY ALSO TEST THE MACHINES ABILITY TO REJECT BALLOTS WHICH ARE MARKED TOO MANY TIMES.

LEE VOTING MACHINES-SOTVO

Transparency at it's greatest. I mean we have people come in just like you saw today we had several different groups come in. 43 The more that come in, the more they're going to understand what the process is."

COLLIER COUNTY EARLY VOTING IS ALREADY UNDERWAY.

COLLEGE PKWY OVERPASS CLOSURE-SS

AN ABC7 TRAFFIC ALERT FOR YOU TONIGHT.

THE OVERPASS AT MCGREGOR BOULEVARD AND COLLEGE PARKWAY WILL CLOSE TONIGHT FOR CONSTRUCTION.

THIS MEANS DRIVERS WHO USE THE CAPE CORAL BRIDGE WILL HAVE TO ENTER AND EXIT FROM MCGREGOR ON THE FORT MYERS SIDE.

CREWS ARE SHIFTING LANES FOR THE TOLL BOOTH CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.

NFM BOIL WATER NOTICE-OC

ANOTHER ALERT FOR YOU.THIS TIME A BOIL WATER NOTICE FOR ONE COMMUNITY IN NORTH FORT MYERS.

THIS AFFECTS MORE THAN 300 HOMES IN THE MOBILE MANOR COMMUNITY OFF OF BAYSHORE ROAD.

A WATER MAIN BREAK CAUSED THE NOTICE -- WHICH MIGHT LEAD TO CONTAMINATED WATER.

YOU SHOULD BOIL YOUR DRINKING AND COOKING WATER.

NO WORD ON WHEN IT WILL END.

BEAR IN COLLER-SS-SS-SS

COFFEE SHOP PATRONS IN COLLIER COUNTY BEWARE.

A BEAR IS ROAMING AROUND IN AVE MARIA AND THE ANIMAL APPARENTLY LIKES THE BEVERAGE.

AS YOU CAN SEE IN THIS PICTURE, THE BEAR WAS SPOTTED OUTSIDE THE CAFÉ CALLED 'THE BEAN OF AVE MARIA'.

THE OWNER DANIEL DIX SENT US THESE PHOTOS.

FLORIDA WILDLIFE OFFICERS TELL US THE BEAR HAS BEEN IN THE AREA FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS NOW.

HE'S LOOKING FOR FOOD.

NEXT AT 5:00 OPEN-CLIP

TEASE ONE------------

GET READY TO SAVE BIG!

THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL TAX FREE HOLIDAY IS JUST HOURS AWAY.

OUR ABC7 SMART SHOPPER SHOWS YOU THE DEALS, STEALS.AND BIG TIME BUSTS.

PLUS - SHOPPING ANOTHER WAY.

WATCH THIS!!!

A DRIVER SLAMS THROUGH A STORE.

WHAT WENT WRONG BEHIND THE WHEEL.

TZ1 A BACK TO SCHOOL SAVINGS-VOTOPS

TZ1 B DRUNK DRIVER INTO STORE-VOTOPS

CT FLASH FLOODING-VOTOPS

PARTS OF CONNECTICUT ARE IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY TONIGHT, AFTER ABOUT FIVE INCHES OF RAIN CAUSED DAMAGING FLASH FLOODING.

AMONG THE DAMAGE, A PARKING LOT AT A COSMETOLOGY CENTER IN NAUGATUCK BUCKLED UNDER THE PRESSURE OF THE RAINS, AND MOST OF THE LOT WAS WASHED AWAY.

ALSO, DOZENS OF PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED FROM TWO APARTMENT BUILDINGS.

STORMWARN OPEN-CLIP

FORECAST-PHC

THIS WEATHERCAST HAS BEEN PREPARED BY THE ABC7 WEATHER STAFF.

IT IS NOT A VERBATIM OF WHAT IS BEING SAID, BUT IS THE FORECAST FOR OUR AREA.

BULLETIN

TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO ADVISORY NUMBER 5

NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL052012

500 PM AST THU AUG 02 2012

.DEPRESSION STRENGTHENS INTO FIFTH TROPICAL STORM OF THE

SEASON.TROPICAL STORM WARNINGS ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE LESSER

ANTILLES.

SUMMARY OF 500 PM AST.2100 UTC.INFORMATION

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LOCATION.12.8N 56.6W

ABOUT 295 MI.475 KM E OF THE WINDWARD ISLANDS

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS.50 MPH.85 KM/H

PRESENT MOVEMENT.W OR 270 DEGREES AT 22 MPH.35 KM/H

MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE.1006 MB.29.71 INCHES

WATCHES AND WARNINGS

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CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY.

THE GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS HAS CHANGED THE TROPICAL STORM WATCH

TO A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR BARBADOS.ST. VINCENT AND THE

GRENADINES.AND DOMINICA.

THE GOVERNMENT OF ST. LUCIA HAS CHANGED THE TROPICAL STORM WATCH

TO A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR ST. LUCIA.

THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE HAS CHANGED THE TROPICAL STORM WATCH TO

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR MARTINIQUE AND GUADELOUPE.

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR.

* BARBADOS.ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES.AND DOMINICA

* ST. LUCIA

* MARTINIQUE AND GUADELOUPE

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE

EXPECTED SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE WARNING AREA.IN THIS CASE WITHIN

THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.

INTERESTS ELSEWHERE IN THE LESSER ANTILLES SHOULD MONITOR THE

PROGRESS OF THIS SYSTEM.

FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA.PLEASE MONITOR

PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE.

DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK

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AT 500 PM AST.2100 UTC.THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO WAS

LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 12.8 NORTH.LONGITUDE 56.6 WEST. ERNESTO IS

MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 22 MPH.35 KM/H. THIS GENERAL MOTION

IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 48 HOURS. ON THE FORECAST

TRACK.THE CENTER OF THE DEPRESSION SHOULD BE NEAR THE WINDWARD

ISLANDS BY LATE TONIGHT OR EARLY FRIDAY.

REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER PLANE INDICATE

THAT THE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 50 MPH.85 KM/H.WITH

HIGHER GUSTS. SOME SLIGHT STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE

NEXT 48 HOURS.

TROPICAL-STORM-FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 115 MILES.185 KM

FROM THE CENTER.MAINLY TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1006 MB.29.71 INCHES.

HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND

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WIND.TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING

AREA BY LATE TONIGHT OR EARLY FRIDAY.

RAINFALL.TOTAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES WITH

ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 5 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE

WINDWARD ISLANDS THROUGH FRIDAY.

SURF.LARGE WAVES GENERATED BY ERNESTO WILL BE AFFECTING THE

TROPICAL STORM WARNING AREA OVER THE NEXT DAY OR SO. PLEASE

BACK TO SCHOOL SAVINGS-OC

SOME KIDS HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL NEXT MONDAY.

.AND TOMORROW, FLORIDA'S BACK-TO-SCHOOL SALES TAX HOLIDAY STARTS.

BACK TO SCHOOL SAVINGS-PKG

THE AVERAGE PARENT WITH K THROUGH 12 KIDS IS ON TRACK TO SPEND MORE THAN 688 DOLLARS ON BACK-TO-SCHOOL CLOTHES AND SUPPLIES THIS YEAR.

CONSUMER REPORTS AND SHOP SMART MAGAZINE RECOMMEND A LITTLE PLANNING BEFORE HITTING THE MALL TO GET MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK.

Probably you've got notepaper, maybe a couple of notebooks, certainly you've got pens and pencils and things like that, so you want to take an inventory of what you already have and then build your list around that.

BUY BASIC SUPPLIES IN BULK TO USE YEAR-ROUND. RETAILERS WILL DEEPLY DISCOUNT CERTAIN LOSS-LEADERS DURING THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL SEASON, THINGS LIKE NOTEBOOKS, FOLDERS, AND PENS.

USE THE WEB TO HUNT FOR SALES INSTEAD OF GOING STORE-TO-STORE. SPOOFEE PUTS DEALS FROM WEEKLY CIRCULARS IN ONE PLACE. PRICEGRABBER AND NEXTTAG ALLOW YOU TO COMPARE PRICES AND SET UP PRICE ALERTS.

AND FOR THE BIGGEST SHARE OF BACK-TO-SCHOOL SPENDING -- CLOTHING -- START SMALL.

You don't have to start your child off with a full wardrobe. Kids love clothes, they like to have clothes going back to school, but you don't have to go and buy everything all at once.

BACK TO SCHOOL SAVINGS-OC

AS WE MENTIONED, THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL SALES TAX HOLIDAY STARTS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

PREGNANGY GUT-VO

IN YOUR ABC7 HEALTHY LIVING TONIGHT.

CHANGES TO A WOMAN'S BELLY DURING PREGNANCY COULD IMPACT THEIR WEIGHT.

A NEW STUDY OUT OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY FINDS THE GUT BACTERIA OF PREGNANT WOMEN CHANGES IN A WAY THAT -- IF THEY WERENT PREGNANT -- WOULD MAKE THEM OBESE OR DIABETIC.

SWALLOWABLE SENSOR-VOTOPS

DOCTORS CAN NOW CHECK UP ON YOU REMOTELY.

THE FDA APPROVED A DIGITAL PILL.

IT CAN MONITOR WHETHER PATIENTS ARE TAKING THEIR MEDICATIONS APPROPRIATELY.

SLEEP VACCINES-VOTOPS

ANOTHER REASON TO GET A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP.

A NEW STUDY FOUND A LACK OF SLEEP COULD REDUCE THE PROTECTION YOU RECEIVE FROM VACCINES.

RESEARCHERS LOOKED AT MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED HEALTHY ADULTS WHO RECEIVED THE STANDARD, THREE-DOSE REGIMEN OF THE HEPATITIS "B" VACCINE.

MAN FALLS INTO SINKHOLE-VO IN TC MON-VO

CAMERAS CAPTURED A DEADLY ACCIDENT.

WATCH AS A MAN WALKING DOWN A ROAD IN TAIWAN IS SWALLOWED UP BY A SINKHOLE CREATED BY A SLOW MOVING TYPHOON.

THE FOOTAGE CAPTURED THE MAN DROPPING INTO THE HOLE.

HE'S BURIED AFTER EVERYTHING COLLAPSES BENEATH HIM.

RESCUE WORKERS FOUND THE BODY IN THE MUDDY WATERS BELOW THE COLLAPSED ROAD.

DRUNK DRIVER INTO STORE-VOTOPS

FORTUNATELY NO ONE WAS HURT THIS TIME.

BUT CHECK IT OUT.

A DRIVER PLOWED RIGHT THROUGH THE FRONT OF A CONVENIENCE STORE IN TEXAS.

POLICE THINK THE DRIVER HAD BEEN DRINKING.

THE IMPACT THREW THE STORE CLERK TO THE FLOOR.

BUT HE ONLY SUFFERED SOME MINOR SCRAPES.

IN FACT, HE'S ALREADY BACK AT WORK

AS FOR THE DRIVER, SHE'S FACING WHAT'S BEING CALLED INTOXICATION ASSAULT CHARGES.

NEW AT 5:00 OPEN-CLIP

TEASE TWO------------

IT'S THE SAME DEVICE YOU USE TO FLIP THE CHANNEL --

STRAIGHT AHEAD WE SHOW YOU HOW THAT REMOTE CONTROL IS LENGHTENING LEGS.

SPEND FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO STOP BULLYING.

TZ2 A REMOTE CONTROLLED LEG LENGHTENING-VOTOPS-WIP

TZ2 B BULLIED TEEN PLASTIC SURGERY-VOTOPS

BUMP SHOT-BUMP IN

TOSS TO PKG-VO IN POP

YOU USE SOMETHING SIMILAR TO CHANGE THE CHANNEL -- EVEN START YOUR CAR.

REMOTE CONTROLLED LEG LENGTHENING-PKG

JASON CARROLL IS GETTING BACK INTO THE SWING OF THINGS

WHEN HE WAS ELEVEN A FOOTBALL INJURY SHATTERED THE GROWTH PLATE IN HIS RIGHT LEG.

"And I heard it break and then I just remember getting pulled into the ambulance."

"As time went on he had more and more pain in the knee."

THE DAMAGE TO HIS GROWTH PLATE, LED TO HIS RIGHT LEG BEING AN INCH AND A HALF SHORTER THAN HIS LEFT.

"People would ask why you limping and stuff like that."

THAT'S WHERE NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY COMES IN. "PRECICE" IS THE FIRST F-D-A APPROVED INTERNAL LIMB LENGTHENING SYSTEM DESIGNED WITH A REMOTE CONTROL.

DOCTOR SHAWN STANDARD OF SINAI HOSPITAL IS ONE OF ITS DEVELOPERS.

"It's designed to be a lot smaller, can fit into more patients with different sizes of bones."

A TELESCOPIC TITANIUM ROD IS PLACED INSIDE THE PATIENT'S THIGH BONE OR SHIN.

THEN A REMOTE CONTROL MAGNETIC GENERATOR IS PUT OVER THE SKIN WHERE THE ROD'S IMPLANTED FOR A FEW MINUTES SEVERAL TIMES A DAY.

"And as you turn on the magnetic driver, the rod will actually pull apart and lengthen the bone."

PATIENTS CAN EXPECT TO GROW AN AVERAGE OF A MILLIMETER A DAY OR A LITTLE OVER AN INCH IN ONE MONTH WITH LITTLE PAIN.

"It was a lot easier than I expected, like no pain with it."

IN UNDER 60 DAYS, JASON WENT FROM THIS, TO THIS.

REMOTE CONTROLLED LEG LENGTHENING-VO IN POP

THE REMOTE-CONTROLLED TREATMENT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE.

TEASE THREE-ONCAM

SAFETY IN THE SKY --

THREE COMMUTER JETS WITH HUNDREDS ON BOARD.

.CAME WAY TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT MID-AIR.

We were cleared at the river back there. What happened?

PILOTS AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CONFUSED.

HOW JUST TWELVE SECONDS SAVED HUNDREDS OF LIVES.

PLUS - THE COUGAR DEFENSE.

WHY A MAN CONVICTED OF STEALING MILLIONS IS BLAMING HIS OLDER EX-WIFE.

MILLIONS OF WOMEN USE THEM TO LOOK SLIM.

AND NOW EVEN TEENS ARE WEARING THE POPULAR UNDERGARMENT CALLED SPANX.

BUT WHAT ARE THE HEALTH CONCERNS OF SHAPEWEAR AND YOUNG ONES!

BUT FIRST - MEET ABC 7'S FACEBOOK WOMAN OF THE DAY.

CINDY NIXON CARVER OF IMMOKALEE

THANKS FOR WATCHING CINDY.

TZ3 A PLANES CLOSE CALL-SOTVO

TZ3 B COUGAR DEFENSE-VO

TZ3 C TEENS WEARING SPANX-VO

FACEBOOK WOMAN OF THE DAY-SSTOPS

BUMP SHOT-BUMP OUT

NEWS AT 5:00 PM OPEN-CLIP

ERNESTO

FIRST WX-WX WALL

MIAMI - Forecasters say Tropical Storm Ernesto has formed in the Atlantic and is speeding toward a chain of small, popular vacation islands in the Caribbean Sea.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Thursday afternoon that the storm is headed west at about 22 mph toward the Caribbean. Tropical storm warnings are in effect for the islands of Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Martinique, Guadeloupe and the Grenadines.

The storm's maximum sustained winds are rapidly gaining strength and were at 50 mph.

TS 1 CAPE CORAL MURDER-VID BOX TOPS

MAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW AT 5-30 --

NO BOND FOR A MAN CHARGED WITH MURDERING HIS 91 YEAR OLD FATHER IN CAPE CORAL.

LEROY TAYLOR JUNIOR IS IN A LEE COUNTY JAIL TONIGHT.

HE FACES SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.

TS 2 GOLDEN GATE MURDER FOLO-VID BOX

NEW DETAILS TONIGHT ABOUT A MURDER INVESTIGATION IN GOLDEN GATE.

JOSEPH GODCHARLES'S SON FOUND HIM DEAD INSIDE HIS CONDO YESTERDAY.

GODCHARLES WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE AFTER LEAVING WORK AT THE WALGREENS IN IMMOKALE, LAST HEARD FROM ON A PHONE CALL A LITTLE WHILE LATER.

TS LEE VOTING MACHINES-VID BOX

EARLY VOTING BEGINS SATURDAY IN LEE COUNTY.

TODAY OFFICIALS DID A TEST-RUN.

DURING THE TEST.

OFFCIALS FED MARKED SAMPLE BALLOTS.THROUGH. AND WATCHED THEM GET TALLIED.

THE CANVASSING BOARD LISTENED TO MAKE SURE THE VOTES THAT CAME *OUT MATCHED WHAT WENT *IN.

FL CHILD PREDATOR BUST-NATSVO-2 SHOT

nats I'm sorry crying

APOLOGIES ARE TOO LATE FOR THESE MEN,

ABC7 BRINGS YOU NEW VIDEO TONIGHT OF A SWEEPING CHILD SEX STING.

AUTHORITIES ARRESTED MORE THAN TWO DOZEN MEN.

HI AND GOOD EVENING I'M COURTNEY ROBINSON.

AND I'M JEFF BUTERA.

DEPUTIES SAY IT'S WHAT THE MEN CARRIED IN THEIR POCKETS THAT RAISED THE MOST CONCERN.

FL CHILD PREDATOR BUST-PKG

FAA INCIDENT-OC

12 SECONDS FROM DISASTER!

TONIGHT, FEDERAL OFFICIALS SAY THEY'RE INVESTIGATING WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THREE COMMUTER JETS FLEW TOO CLOSE TO EACH ANOTHER OVER OUR NATION'S CAPITAL.

THE HEAD OF THE F-A-A SAYS THE PLANES WEREN'T CLOSE ENOUGH TO COLLIDE.

BUT THE ADMINISTRATION IS STILL INVESTIGATING.

FAA INCIDENT-PKG

THE F-A-A SAYS AN INCIDENT TUESDAY INVOLVING THREE PASSENGER JETS AT WASHINGTON'S REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.

.BUT WASN'T WHAT THE WASHINGTON POST MADE IT OUT TO BE.

"The planes were on different headings and at different altitudes so they would not have collided.

THE POST REPORTED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS NEARLY HAD THREE COMMUTER JETS ON A COLLISION COURSE.

.BUT AVERTED DISASTER BY SECONDS BY DIVERTING ONE INCOMING JET FROM THE RUNWAY WHERE THE TWO OTHERS WERE WAITING TO TAKE OFF.

.CONFUSING THE PILOT OF THE INCOMING JET.

"We've got to get on the ground here pretty quick."

THE F-A-A SAYS APPROACHING BAD WEATHER TUESDAY FORCED THE AIRPORT TO SWITCH THE DIRECTION FLIGHTS WERE TAKING OFF AND LANDING.

.AND ADMITS THAT WASN'T COMMUNICATED PROMPTLY.

BUT A DEFENSIVE TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY RAY LAHOOD PRAISED THE CONTROLLER WHO RECOGNIZED IT PROMPTLY ENOUGH.

"classic case of where atc did exactly what she was supposed to do

FAA INCIDENT-OC

DREW PETERSON NO MISTRIAL-VO

UPDATING YESTERDAY'S STORY ABOUT THE DREW PETERSON TRIAL IN ILLINIOS --

THE JUDGE HAS DECIDED AGAINST DECLARING A MISTRIAL -- DESPITE SEVERAL BLUNDERS BY PROSECUTORS.

IN THE TRIAL, THEY'RE TRYING TO PROVE THE FORMER COP KILLED HIS THIRD WIFE.

PETERSON IS ALSO A SUSPECT IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS FOURTH WIFE.

DAYCARE WIDOW CHARGED-VO

A TWIST TONIGHT IN A MURDER CASE OUTSIDE OF A DAYCARE IN GEORGIA.

AUTHORITIES TOOK ANDREA SNEIDERMAN INTO CUSTODY TODAY.

SHE'S CHARGED IN THE NOVEMBER 2010 MURDER OF HER HUSBAND, RUSTY SNEIDERMAN.

A JURY ALREADY CONVICTED HER FORMER BOSS OF KILLING SNEIDERMAN, BUT NOW ANDREA'S CHARGED TOO.

SHE DENIES BEING INVOLVED OR HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH HER BOSS.

SPAIN AL QADA ARRESTS-VO

IN SPAIN TONIGHT,

THREE MEN ARE IN JAIL,

ACCUSED OF BEING MEMBERS OF AL-QAEDA.

POLICE SAY THE GROUP STORED EXPLOSIVES,

AND MAY HAVE PLOTTED ATTACKS IN EUROPE.

THE ARRESTS ARE THE LATEST IN SPAIN'S FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM.

KOFI ANNAN RESIGNS-VO

THE SPECIAL ENVOY TO SORIA FOR THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE ARAB LEAGUE HAS RESIGNED.

KOFI ANNAN SAYS HE'S DONE AT THE END OF THE MONTH.

THIS COMES AS THE CRISIS IN SYRIA ENTERS ITS 17TH MONTH.

MANY SEE ANNAN'S RESIGNATION AT THE FAILURE OF WORLD DIPLOMACY AND SYRIAN LEADERS TO END THE FIGHTING.

CHICK FIL A PROFITS-VO

RECORD NUMBERS TURNED OUT AT CHICK-FIL-A'S ACROSS THE COUNTRY WEDNESDAY.

WE DON'T HAVE EXACT NUMBERS TONIGHT YET.

BUT THE RESTAURANT'S VICE PRESIDENT SAYS YESTERDAY'S 'APPRECIATION DAY' WAS A RECORD-SETTER.

THEY CAN THANK FORMER ARKANSAS GOVERNOR MIKE HUCKABEE FOR THE PROFIT.

COUGAR CARD-VO.WIPE

CALL IT THE 'COUGAR DEFENSE.'

A FORMER NEW YORK CITY EDUCATION CONSULTANT -- CONVICTED OF STEALING ALMOST TWO MILLION DOLLARS -- WANTS THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO GO EASY ON HIM.

HIS REASONING -- HIS EX IS A 'COUGAR'?

YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT.

WILLARD LANHAM SAYS HE'S WORRIED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HIS DAUGHTER, IF SHE'S LEFT WITH HIS EX-WIFE LAURIE BASILE - A SELF PROCLAIMED COUGAR.

THE LAVISH LIFESTYLE THEY LIVED CAME FROM STOLEN TAXPAYER MONEY.

LANHAM SIPHONED IT OUT OF A FUND TO INSTALL HIGH SPEED INTERNET IN CLASSROOMS.

COUGAR CARD-SOTVO

I didn't think about it. It just seemed normal, because I knew he was

making money. I don't think anybody would sit there and say, well, where is

this money coming from?

Let this go, let us go, and deal with your own life and stop messing up ours

LANHAM IS ASKING FOR JUST *FOUR* YEARS BEHIND BARS.

FOX ATTACK ON TAPE-VO.WIPE

A CRAZY FOX TOOK OVER A PARKING LOT IN CONNECTICUT --

AND IT'S ALL CAUGHT ON TAPE.

IT WAS QUITE THE SURPRISE FOR THESE THREE PEOPLE, JUST MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS.

THE FOX CHARGED AT THEM!

EVERYONE'S OKAY TONIGHT.

FOX ATTACK ON TAPE-SOTVO

"Right when he snarled and showed his teeth, I knew we were in for something."

He actually grabbed my pants a couple times and when I tried getting away from him, he just kept coming at me

ANIMAL CONTROL CAME OUT.

MI CAR INTO STATION-VO

AS A CAR THIEF --

THE LAST THING YOU PROBABLY PLAN TO DO IS CRASH INTO A POLICE STATION!

BUT IT HAPPENED!

CHECK OUT THESE PICTURES FROM MICHIGAN.

POLICE DIDN'T HAVE TO GO FAR TO CATCH THE GUY.

THEY SAY HE STOLE THAT CAR FROM A NEARBY CONSTRUCTION SITE,

AND CRASHED IT INTO THE GARAGE DOOR AT THE POLICE STATION.

HUMAN WASTE SPILL-VOTOPS

ALSO IN MICHIGAN --

COMMUTERS CAUGHT A WHIFF OF A SMELLY SITUATION THIS MORNING.

A TRUCK CARRYING HUMAN WASTE OVERTURNED ON THE INTERSTATE!

DIALYSIS MACHINES BLEACH-VO

LISTEN TO THIS STORY.

A SOUTH CAROLINA MAN IS IN TROUBLE FOR POURING BLEACH -- INTO DIALYSIS MACHINES!

OFFICERS ARRESTED THE 49-YEAR OLD.

HE NOW FACES ATTEMPTED MURDER AND BURGLARY CHARGES.

DETECTIVES SAY HE BROKE INTO A CLINIC AND POURED BLEACH INTO WATER USED IN THE MACHINES.

HE ONCE WORKED AT THE EXACT CLINIC -- BUT HIS EMPLOYER FIRED HIM BEFORE THIS HAPPENED.

TEENS WEARING SPANX-VO.WIPE

PARENTS -- YOU BE THE JUDGE HERE.

SPANKS HAVE BECOME VERY POPULAR AMONG WOMEN THESE DAYS.

THE TIGHT-FITTING UNDERGARMENTS HELP WOMEN LOOK SLIMMER.

AND IT TURNS OUT --

TEENS AS YOUNG AS 13 ARE INCREASINGLY TURNING TO

TEENS WEARING SPANX-SOTVO

2:31:15 I wear them under everything/even to school/ even under jeans./2:

06:57 you don't want people to see you have a muffin top.

2:05:28 Muffin tops are bad. They make you stand out for the wrong reasons.

BUT, IF YOU'RE DAUGHTER IS WEARING THEM,

KEEP THIS IN MIND.

DOCTORS SAY SHAPEWEAR CAN LEAD TO BLADDER INFECTIONS AND SIGNIFICANT NERVE DAMAGE,

BULLIED TEEN PLASTIC SURGERY -OC

A TEENAGE GIRL ENDURED RELENTLESS TAUNTS.

CLASSMATES CALLED HER DUMBO.

THEY BULLIED HER BECAUSE OF HER EARS.

AND THAT'S WHEN SHE AND HER MOTHER MADE A DECISION -- SPEND 40-THOUSAND DOLLARS TO MAKE A CHANGE.

BULLIED TEEN PLASTIC SURGERY -PKG

WHAT MAY SEEM TRIVIAL FOR MOST TEENS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL FOR 14-YEAR-OLD NADIA ILSE.

SIX WEEKS POST-SURGERY, NADIA LIKES WHAT SHE SEES.

"When the comments started I just saw everything that was wrong. And nothing that was good."

FROM DUMBO TO ELEPHANT EARS NADIA SAYS THE TEASING WAS NON-STOP. SHE EVEN SKIPPED SCHOOL BECAUSE OF IT.

"It felt horrible it felt. it's like I'd tell them every day I wish I could get something done about it but I can't because we don't have the money for it/"

WHEN SHE WAS 10 YEARS OLD NADIA ASKED HER MOTHER IF SHE COULD HAVE THE SURGERY TO PIN HER EARS BACK.

A LOCAL SURGEON QUOTED HER 8,000 DOLLARS. WHICH THEY COULDN'T AFFORD. BUT THEN LYNDA ILSE, NADIA'S MOTHER, FOUND LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION. A VOLUNTEER GROUP OF SURGEONS WHO OPERATE ON CHILDREN WITH FACIAL DEFORMITIES.

"I thought Nadia was beautiful before the surgery and I think she's beautiful now as well. but she love's herself more after the surgery."

BULLIED TEEN PLASTIC SURGERY -OC

STACEY ELGIN REPORTING.

NADIA SAYS SHE IS GRATEFUL FOR THE SURGERY.

NEW AT 5:00 OPEN-CLIP

TEASE FOUR------------

TAKE A LOOK.

SHE MADE HEADLINES FOR HER WAY-TOO-TAN SKIN.

TONIGHT. THE TAN MOM IS SHOWING OFF A NEW GLOW.

BACK IN COURT AND BATTLING FOR MILLIONS AND THE KING OF POP'S CHILDREN.

NEW DETAILS IN THE JACKSON FAMILY LEGAL FIGHT AHEAD.

TZ4 A TAN MOM NEW LOOK-VO

TZ4 B JACKSON FAMILY DRAMA-VOTOPS

GA STORM DAMAGE-VOTOPS

SEVERE STORMS RIP THROUGH PARTS OF GEORGIA CAUSING DAMAGE.

THIS IS VIDEO OF CUMMING WHERE THE STORM KNOCKED DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES LAST NIGHT.

IT ALSO DAMAGED SEVERAL MOBILE HOMES.

SEVERAL FIRES FROM LIGHTNING STRIKES ALSO BROKE OUT.

STORM WARN JP OPEN-CLIP

CROSSTALK-WX EST

FORECAST-PHC

THIS WEATHERCAST HAS BEEN PREPARED BY THE ABC7 WEATHER STAFF.

IT IS NOT A VERBATIM OF WHAT IS BEING SAID, BUT IS THE FORECAST FOR OUR AREA.

BULLETIN

TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO ADVISORY NUMBER 5

NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL052012

500 PM AST THU AUG 02 2012

.DEPRESSION STRENGTHENS INTO FIFTH TROPICAL STORM OF THE

SEASON.TROPICAL STORM WARNINGS ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE LESSER

ANTILLES.

SUMMARY OF 500 PM AST.2100 UTC.INFORMATION

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LOCATION.12.8N 56.6W

ABOUT 295 MI.475 KM E OF THE WINDWARD ISLANDS

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS.50 MPH.85 KM/H

PRESENT MOVEMENT.W OR 270 DEGREES AT 22 MPH.35 KM/H

MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE.1006 MB.29.71 INCHES

WATCHES AND WARNINGS

--------------------

CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY.

THE GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS HAS CHANGED THE TROPICAL STORM WATCH

TO A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR BARBADOS.ST. VINCENT AND THE

GRENADINES.AND DOMINICA.

THE GOVERNMENT OF ST. LUCIA HAS CHANGED THE TROPICAL STORM WATCH

TO A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR ST. LUCIA.

THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE HAS CHANGED THE TROPICAL STORM WATCH TO

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR MARTINIQUE AND GUADELOUPE.

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR.

* BARBADOS.ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES.AND DOMINICA

* ST. LUCIA

* MARTINIQUE AND GUADELOUPE

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE

EXPECTED SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE WARNING AREA.IN THIS CASE WITHIN

THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.

INTERESTS ELSEWHERE IN THE LESSER ANTILLES SHOULD MONITOR THE

PROGRESS OF THIS SYSTEM.

FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA.PLEASE MONITOR

PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE.

DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK

------------------------------

AT 500 PM AST.2100 UTC.THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO WAS

LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 12.8 NORTH.LONGITUDE 56.6 WEST. ERNESTO IS

MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 22 MPH.35 KM/H. THIS GENERAL MOTION

IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 48 HOURS. ON THE FORECAST

TRACK.THE CENTER OF THE DEPRESSION SHOULD BE NEAR THE WINDWARD

ISLANDS BY LATE TONIGHT OR EARLY FRIDAY.

REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER PLANE INDICATE

THAT THE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 50 MPH.85 KM/H.WITH

HIGHER GUSTS. SOME SLIGHT STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE

NEXT 48 HOURS.

TROPICAL-STORM-FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 115 MILES.185 KM

FROM THE CENTER.MAINLY TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1006 MB.29.71 INCHES.

HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND

----------------------

WIND.TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING

AREA BY LATE TONIGHT OR EARLY FRIDAY.

RAINFALL.TOTAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES WITH

ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 5 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE

WINDWARD ISLANDS THROUGH FRIDAY.

SURF.LARGE WAVES GENERATED BY ERNESTO WILL BE AFFECTING THE

TROPICAL STORM WARNING AREA OVER THE NEXT DAY OR SO. PLEASE

JACKSON FAMILY DRAMA-OC

NEW DEVELOPMENTS TONIGHT IN THE JACKSON FAMILY DRAMA.

REPRESENATIVES OF MICHAEL JACKSON'S FAMILY WERE IN

COURT TODAY AND IT APPEARS SEVERAL ISSUES MAY HAVE BEEN RESOLVED.

JACKSON FAMILY DRAMA-PKG

THE JACKSON FAMILY CUSTODY DISPUTE HEADS BACK TO COURT.

THIS MORNING, A JUDGE REINSTATED KATHERINE JACKSON AS GUARDIAN OF MICHAEL

JACKSON'S THREE CHILDREN, WHILE T-J JACKSON - THEIR COUSIN -- REMAINS "CO

GUARDIAN."

SOT -- Perry Sanders / Katherine Jackson's Attorney: 11:51:57 "The role that

Mrs. Jackson has played. is that she's been a phenomenal guardian of

these children. That TJ has been a phenomenal support.":05

THE "CUSTODY BATTLE" STARTED LAST MONTH, WHEN KATHERINE WENT TO ARIZONA TO

GET REST.

A FEUD ESCALATED WITHIN THE FAMILY WITH DEPUTIES RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF A

FIGHT AT THE 82-YEAR-OLD'S HOME AND THERE WERE EVEN REPORTS KATHERINE HAD

BEEN *KIDNAPPED.*

SOT - Katherine Jackson / Grandmother 21:10:04 "My

children would never do a thing to me like that, holding me against my will

, it's very stupid for people to think that."

ON THE SAME DAY OF THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH A-B-C NEWS, A JUDGE

STRIPPED KATHERINE OF HER GUARDIANSHIP, AND GRANTED TEMPORARY GUARDIANSHIP

TO T-J.

SOT - Katherine Jackson / Grandmother 21:10:16 "I am

devastated that while I've been away, that my children, my grandchildren

have been taken away from me."

NOW -- THEY'RE BACK WITH GRANDMA.

AND WHILE SOME OF THE JACKSON CHILDREN ARE STILL FUEDING WITH THE EXECUTOR'S

OF MICHAEL'S ESTATE. JERMAINE IS CALLING FOR CALM.

IN A STATEMENT HE SAID.

"After much soul-searching, it is clearly time for us to live by Michael's

words about love not war"

SOT -- Charles Shultz / TJ Jackson's Attorney: 11:55:17 "Ms. Jackson and TJ

are trying to figure out how best the entire family can move forward. ":06

A JUDICIAL INVESTIGATOR AND DIANA ROSS -- A GUARDIAN LISTED IN MICHAEL'S

WILL -- BOTH MET WITH THE CHILDREN. AND BOTH SAY KATHERINE IS TAKING GREAT

CARE OF THE KIDS.

TAN MOM NEW LOOK-SS-VO

THE MOM KNOWN AS 'THE TANNING MOM' IS FLAUNTING A NEW LOOK.

TAKE A LOOK -

PATRICIA KRENTCIL IS IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF "IN TOUCH" MAGAZINE.

.AND SHE'S LESS TAN.

IN FACT, SHE SAYS THE LAST TIME SHE WENT TO THE TANNING BOOTH A MONTH AGO.

AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW -- SHE SAYS EVERYONE'S TELLING HER SHE LOOKS BETTER THIS WAY.

YOU MIGHT REMEMBER, IN MAY, NEW JERSEY OFFICERS CHARGED HER WITH CHILD ENDANGERMENT.

THEY SAY SHE LET HER 5-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER USE A TANNING BED.

SOUND MAN EJECTED-NATSVO

USUALLY EJECT PLAYERS OR MANAGERS FROM BASEBALL GAMES -- BUT THE SOUND MAN?

YEP, THAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT.

you're out

THE HOME PLATE UMPIRE BOOTED DEREK DYE IN THE EIGHTH INNING OF THE GAME BETWEEN THE DAYTONA CUBS AND THE FORT MYERS MIRACLE IN DAYTONA.

HE DIDN'T LIKE THAT DYE WAS PLAYING "THREE BLIND MICE" -- PROBABLY AFTER A CALL THAT WENT AGAINST THE HOME TEAM.

UMPIRE HIT BY BAT-VOTOPS

AN UMPIRE AT THE MARLINS-BRAVES GAME IN ATLANTA LAST NIGHT TOOK A MAJOR POP TO THE NOGGIN.

JOE WEST WAS BEHIND THE PLATE, WHEN CARLOS LEE'S BACKSWING WRAPPED AROUND. AND THE BAT HIT WEST ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE AND HEAD.

IT KNOCKED HIS FACEMASK OFF AND CUT HIM NEAR HIS TEMPLE.

PAY RAISES-VO

WE HAVE GOOD NEWS, IF YOU HAVE A JOB.

A NEW SURVEY SHOWS MANY EMPLOYERS ARE PLANNING TO BOOST SALARIES NEXT YEAR.

THE CONSULTING FIRM MERCER QUESTIONED MORE THAN 15-THOUSAND MIDDLE- TO LARGE-SIZE EMPLOYERS.

98 PERCENT -- ALMOST ALL OF THEM -- SAID THEY PLANNED TO INCREASE PAY IN 20-13.

ON AVERAGE, SALARIES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE BY NEARLY THREE PERCENT.

ONLINE PRIVACY GUIDELINES-VO

THE GOVERNMENT'S CONSIDERING NEW WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN ONLINE.

THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION IS PROPOSING NEW RULES REQUIRING WEBSITES AND THIRD PARTIES TO GET A PARENT'S PERMISSION.BEFORE THEY COLLECT CELL PHONE INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER.

TEASE FIVE-ONCAM

ARMED AND READY TO ROB A JEWELRY STORE.

BUT THE OWNER WAS ARMED.

AND READY TO FIRE, TOO.

TZ5 A CA JEWELRY OWNER STOPS ROBBERY-VO

BUMP SHOT-BUMP IN

CA JEWERLY OWNER STOPS ROBBERY-OC

FIVE MEN WITH GUNS PICKED THE WRONG JEWELRY STORE TO ROB.

THEY WEREN'T READY FOR THE ANGRY OWNER THEY MET INSIDE.

CA JEWERLY OWNER STOPS ROBBERY-PKG

surveillance video shows a white ford suv backing into a handicap parking

space.

then one by one five suspects file into a garden grove jewelry store.

the masked men then attempt to rob the store at gunpoint.

lt. jeff nightengale - garden grove pd

9:23:11

9:23:19

"rather obvious it was going to be some type of smash and grab plus take

over robbery. but it seems that it was a quick in-out and get back in the

vehicle."

it was a quick in and out - 15 seconds to be precise.

as two of the suspects armed with handguns train their weapons on employees

and a single customer, the three others open pillow cases and demand cash.

but barely half a minute later they would leave empty handed chased out by

one very angry storeowner.

9:21:45

"the storeowner was in the back of the store and through small window that

separates the main area of the store to this back room she armed herself

with a handgun.

as the suspects barge in they ordered everyone to the ground thinking they

had the upper hand.

the storeowner would soon turn the tables on armed robbers.

9:22:04

"she felt that these suspects where possibly going to injury the employees

or the customer, so she fired two rounds from her handgun towards the

suspects which caused them to flee the store."

and flee they did - bumbling and stumbling into each other as they clamored

to escape the storeowner's fury.

one suspect fired off a round that hit the ceiling before exiting

NEXT AT 6 OPEN-CLIP

COMING UP AT 6PM-1 SHOT

LOOKING AHEAD TO THE NEXT HALF HOUR.

HERE'S WHAT'S NEW AT SIX.

you dirty scum. How could you kill your own father? Who was taking care of you!"

A STORY WE'RE CLOSELY FOLLOWING AT ABC7.

A SON ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS OWN FATHER.

WE'RE GETTING A BETTER LOOK AT LEROY TAYLOR JUNIOR TONIGHT.

AND HIS VIOLENT PAST.

they eat all the bugs in the yard, everything. So it was a natural pest control and fertilizer

CHICKENS IN BONITA SPRINGS.

THE CITY LOOKS AT A NEW PILOT PROGRAM.

SO WHY WOULD YOU WANT THE BIRDS HANGING AROUND?

WE TAKE A LOOK.

AND GUYS IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO GET BUFF,

AND WANT TO BE LIKE 'MAGIC MIKE'--

ABC 7 HAS SOME HELP--

TZ 6 1) CAPE MURDER FOLO-SOTVO

TZ 6 2) BONITA CHICKENS-SOTVO

TZ 6 3) LOOK LIKE MAGIC MIKE-VO

CLOSE-2SHOT